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Customer engagement

Hey, you found me!

Reading Time: 3 minutes I am Marc Olivier Meunier, a Customer Engagement Leader. I am working for Eficode, the leading DevOps company. After 7 years spent pouring oil on the fire of a high growth advertisement technology company (Smartly.io), I switched to Eficode. The company is also in high growth phase with a service delivery business model. We are […]

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Cycling

Rapport 600K BRM

Reading Time: 8 minutes Rouler 600km en moins de 40h n’est pas anondin. Je pensais être largement capable de valider la mission, mais j’ai vraiment dû puiser dans mon mental pour terminer. Pourquoi ? Je rêve de participer à Paris-Brest-Paris depuis quelques années. L’inscription requière de compléter une série “Super Randonneur”. 200km, 300km, 400km, et 600km. Ce dernier 600km […]

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Customer engagement

Support from HEL

Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m excited to tell you about Support from HEL, a community of customer support professionals! In February 2020, I was knee deep in Customer Support at Smartly.io and I was wondering why we didn’t have a community of Customer Support professionals that could gather and share insights. I was interested to grow my network, my […]

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Leadership

Creating Change

Reading Time: 3 minutes A while back, I was getting mentoring session with Mike Pegg and he helped me to understand how to create change. When we spoke I was in a situation where creating change was not necessarily so vital, but I kept the lesson with me for the futur. Turns out, the futur is now! Here is […]

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Leadership

Clarity and direction

Reading Time: 2 minutes Clarity and direction are crucial components of my leadership style. I believe that when employees understand their role in the organization, what they need to deliver, and how their efforts fit into the bigger picture, they are better equipped to focus their efforts on the tasks that matter most. This clarity leads to more meaningful […]

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Linux

Restart a failed service

Reading Time: < 1 minute Sometimes my MariaDB database fails and crash. I am not sure why and I am not sure I want to find out why as I am guessing it would require some investigation and it may be above my pay grade. It happens quiet rarely but every now and then it happens and when it does, […]

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Leadership

Leading by example

Reading Time: 2 minutes Leading by example usually means being a role model, and showing others how to behave and conduct themselves in a professional and effective manner. My approach to that is pretty much there with some nuance. I like to show up as a human being and build a safe environment where it’s OK for everyone to […]

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Leadership

My leadership principles

Reading Time: 2 minutes I try to formulate my leadership principles in a clear and concise way. It keeps me accountable and helps me to be consistent. Build trust: be consistent in decisions and actions, keep decision making transparent and explain why. Be vulnerable: I’m a human being and I act like one, with my flaws. Sharing my ups […]

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Leadership

Decision making principles

Reading Time: < 1 minute To build trust, your decision making should be predictable. To build trust, your decision making should be transparent. To build trust, you want to get your team and you peers on a field trip into the meanders of your brain. You want to invite everyone around into your brain so they understand what to expect […]

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Leadership

Build Trust

Reading Time: < 1 minute Trust is the foundation of relationship in many cultures. When leading a team, a department or a company, you want to make sure all your decision making is as transparent as possible in order to increase the trust in the organization. You destroy trust whenever you let personal choices, motivated by your own advantage come […]

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Customer engagement Leadership

Select a BPO for customer support

Reading Time: 16 minutes Selecting a BPO for outsourcing a customer support function usually goes through a Request for Proposal (RFP). An RFP can have varying degrees of detail, depending on the companies. For some, the quality control or the tooling may be more important, for some others the language coverage may be the clincher. Why using an RFP? […]